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Stardate: 20210703.0920 | |
Location: Outlaw's vehicle en route to Solvang. | |
Input Device: Gemini PDA | |
Audio: Some 80's dance playlist | |
Visual: Mountains, trees, other vehicles | |
Emotional State: Still waking up. | |
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I haven't had much time for personal computing or online socializing | |
lately. Volunteer work has been filling up my days since many COVID | |
restrictions have been lifted here since June 15th. It has been | |
good for my soul to be of service and help other instead of getting | |
wrapped up in my own self-centeredness. | |
Today, we are taking a road trip with the outlaws to Solvang and | |
then Santa Barbara for the day. Unfortunately, my son cannot join | |
since he is working today. He will be missed. | |
It seems like things are happening so fast with my kids. I was | |
talking about this with my wife last night. My son has his | |
driver's license and now has a job making his own money. We see him | |
less and less since he also goes out with his friends more often | |
since pre-COVID. This fall he starts his senior year of high school | |
and then after that, off to college. My daughter follows two years | |
after that. | |
It seems to me that my experience of living in pandemic times, as | |
well as being unemployed, has shifted my perspective of things like | |
time and calendars. I have become comfortable with just | |
taking each day as it comes and doing the next indicated tasks. | |
Transitioning back to a modified, "how things were," or even to, | |
how things are post-pandemic" has me thinking about time again in | |
that way. Going back to the way of imposed schedules and having to be | |
constantly mindful of the time feels unnatural right now. It's been | |
nice having an open flexible schedule and I hope I don't resist the | |
changes too much. | |
20210720 NOTE: "the outlaws" are what I call my extended family on my | |
wife's side (inlaws = immediate family, outlaws = extended family.) | |
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